David Drumm’s fraud and false accounting trial paused

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David Drumm’s fraud and false accounting trial was paused, with the jury sent home on 31 May 2018 after one juror became unavailable.

The jurors had begun deliberating on 29 May 2018 and had deliberated for almost four hours. Drumm has pleaded not guilty to conspiring to dishonestly make Anglo’s balance sheet look better by €7.2bn, and to knowingly presenting false figures to the market.